Postdoctoral Associate
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
St. Louis, Missouri
Dr. Kong M. Wong is a postdoctoral researcher in the Topp lab at the Donald Danforh Plant Science Center in St. Louis, MO. Prior to his postdoc, he received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2012 and a Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2020. Kong’s interdisciplinary research bridges plant biology, soil science, microbiology, and chemical engineering. Currently, Kong works on understanding how arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), which form mutualistic relationships with land plants, alters carbon allocation within corn plants. He is also leading the Topp lab’s new efforts in cover crop research, which seeks to engineer cover crop root system architectures to optimize their beneficial ecosystem functions including soil structure remediation, altering soil microbiomes, and improving nutrient cycling.
(CS-18-4) In situ quantification of plant carbon allocation in a Maize-AMF system
Monday, August 7, 2023
4:00 PM – 4:20 PM EDT